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I only ever wear speedos when I'm fully waxed. Pointless wasting those aero gains.
Danowat will tell you. It's all about the aero gains.
Danowat will tell you. It's all about the aero gains.
So what's that per KG? Given we're talking about climbing here... not your flat TT time.
I'm guessing you weigh sub 70kg?
...and yeah, I'm being a douche in return, but it's such a ridiculous statement to make. You're more than welcome to come out and prove me wrong on some of my local hills though!
Edit - That said, kudos, one way or another even if you weigh 90kg that's still a solid power output.
So you should definitely be able to get up the hills... but you're no Nairo Quintana, and I've seen his face on some of the steeper stuff, even he didn't think they were easy!
For sure, I'd wager partially because when you're going that slow you're not getting nearly the aero advantage from your domestiques or the guys in front of you too, so any weaknesses you have are going to be amplified.
Plus, even pros can run out of gears when they hit these sorts of hills, and not even track riders want to spend too long grinding out hundreds of watts at a cadence of 50 or less.
I miss when this thread wasn't about WATTTS
You can go even lower by putting a 120mm stem onto the steerer backwards.Pacenti is coming our with a new system that can go as low as 25 mm. Pricey though.
http://reviews.mtbr.com/pacenti-pdent-stem-and-bar-review
I'm just gonna yell at clouds and say that this short stem fad is a bit silly. Nobody outside the EWS needs a stem so short it requires bespoke bar/stem combo.
11-12-13-14-15-17-19-21-23-25-28Seems 52/36 with an 11-28 is a bad word in some areas
That's a Mountain Tamer Quad. This is the page the image was from.Where can I get this? Asking for a friend.
It's steep, but I wouldn't call it difficult (at least it wasn't when I was 5kg lighter). On a 100m 25-30% climb on the other hand you have to go max power and still your rpm slowly decreases towards 0 and you'll either reach the top completely exhausted or come to a stop halfway and clumsily fall over.
Edit: just checked some of my steepest segments and they weren't as steep as I hoped. I've changed my mind, 15% IS difficult! (Maybe not on granny geared mtb's))
That's a Mountain Tamer Quad. This is the page the image was from.
Currently they appear to be sold out, and you'd have to be careful to make sure it'll work: will the front derailleur clear the chain across all the rings, can the front derailleur move far enough to each side, does the shifter have enough cable pull to make the front derailleur move far enough to each side, will the drive-side chainstay clear the fourth chainring, does your rear derailleur have a lot of chain wrap (you'll probably want a long-cage MTB derailleur). Also, installation requires that you have a triple crankset with 5-bolt 74BCD for the inner ring. Don't be surprised if shifting to the itsy-bitsy ring ends up a bit weird.
i'm running a 50/34 with a 11-28, which has been adequate enough
mid-compacts weren't in vogue when i wanted to change my setup. finding a mid-compact sram force22 crankset/chainring was nearly impossibly 2 years ago in the states and even europe from what i could tell. there was one seller on ebay located in china though the price was heavily inflated and my bike desperately needed new chains so i couldn't wait around for a month for it to arrive.
Yeah my old bike was a 50/34 with 11-28, was quite normal with 2013/14 bikes but that seems to have changed around 2015/16. I know alot of people removing the 52/36 and replacing with a new (or their old) 50/34 chainset.
Nice to see another Sram owner though, I run Shimano 105 on my winter bike but Red22 on my summer bike, much prefer the double tap of the Sram and the fact it's far far lighter than even Dura-Ace.
I wish more manufacturers would give you the Sram option, seems unless you have a CX bike then your road bike Sram options are pretty much only eTap these days.
Roadies are weird. They're so fast to jump to trends instead of just sticking with something.
How many gears are MTB's on these days? 9? 10? 11? 12?
Everyone progresses, some just do it earlier. Some 2017 road bikes are still 9sp.
Mountain bikes are still very much in an evolutionary state of things. My point is more that I feel like I've seen roadies and tri-dorks get more bogged down in the equipment than any other riders.
Eh, sort of. Road bikes are a pretty mature tech, and some sorts of changes get resisted pretty strongly. Wide tires are a pretty obvious example; not that I think everyone should immediately get 2" road tires or anything, but what's silly is that lots of people still get confused when someone on 2" tires manages to keep up just fine. Slight tweaks to tooth count on the chainrings doesn't really conflict with tradition. It's also worth noting that 52/36 hasn't been totally embraced across the board. Nor should it be; it makes sense to have different chainring combos available for different purposes, and for combining with different sorts of rear clusters.Roadies are weird. They're so fast to jump to trends instead of just sticking with something.
I've never used SRAM road, but I'd think that doubletap would be harder to market.your road bike Sram options are pretty much only eTap these days.
The most basic options are often still 8-speed. Bikes like the Specialized Allez E5 or Trek 1.1 use Claris.Some 2017 road bikes are still 9sp.
Eh, sort of. Road bikes are a pretty mature tech, and some sorts of changes get resisted pretty strongly. Wide tires are a pretty obvious example; not that I think everyone should immediately get 2" road tires or anything, but what's silly is that lots of people still get confused when someone on 2" tires manages to keep up just fine. Slight tweaks to tooth count on the chainrings doesn't really conflict with tradition. It's also worth noting that 52/36 hasn't been totally embraced across the board. Nor should it be; it makes sense to have different chainring combos available for different purposes, and for combining with different sorts of rear clusters.
I've never used SRAM road, but I'd think that doubletap would be harder to market.
eTap is easy; unlike something like Di2 where the electronic buttons are basically just mapped to the functions of Shimano's mechanical levers, it's a simple e-shifting interface designed from the ground up for 2x drivetrains. One lever shifts up, one level shifts down, click them both to front shift; pretty darn elegant.
Doubletap has levers whose functions change polarity depending on how far you push them. How do you make that sound good?
The most basic options are often still 8-speed. Bikes like the Specialized Allez E5 or Trek 1.1 use Claris.
I think electronic gears are generally hard to market until you try them.
I'm not really talking "marketing blurb", but more, if you just sit down with someone and describe to them how it works. If someone asks about e-shifting, what the different eTap buttons do and how they interact can comes across as elegant relative to other electronic shifting interfaces.marketing blurb is generally over-hyped
Nah. The point is that they're covering a huge variety of price points. Making Claris fancier wouldn't result in bikes like the Trek 1.1 using 9-speed, it would result in that bike ceasing to exist or using parts from another manufacturer. Shimano already has 10/11-speed stuff that competes with Campy and Sram groupsets, they have no reason to compress everything upwards and hand their huge entry-level market to Microshift.Forgot Claris was 8sp, they really need to bring that and Sora up to a more modest amount of gears.
I'd say road bikes are in an evolutionary state too. To disc or not to disc, that is the 2017 question. :-D
I'd say road bikes are in an evolutionary state too. To disc or not to disc, that is the 2017 question. :-D
Ehh disc brakes have been around and getting used it's just now that road is beginning to consider them. Mountain frames and geometry have been evolving a lot.